Rediscovering Hawthorne

Author : Kenneth Dauber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400872442

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Rediscovering Hawthorne by Kenneth Dauber Pdf

Starting from Hawthorne's statement that his works are attempts to open an intercourse with the world, Kenneth Dauber examines them to see how they serve as acts of communication. Thus his investigation of a major American writer studies Hawthorne as a craftsman, explores the conditions under which various interpretations of literature are possible, and lays the foundation for a new theory of genres. The author begins with a brief history of American criticism from the rediscovery of classic American letters to the present. He traces the development of historicism and formalism as the two major strains of native critical thought and demonstrates their specific limitations in connection with a study of Hawthorne's allegory. By redefining literature according to Hawthorne's work and reexamining the role of the critic in view of the circumstances of American letters, Professor Dauber is able to propose a native poetics. Central to the author's theory is the concept of genre as a pre-existing structure with which Hawthorne battled and through which he sought communion. This ambivalence is analyzed in chapters on the four novels and selected stories. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143039288

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The Portable Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

The Portable Hawthorne includes writings from each major stage in the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a number of his most intriguing early tales, all of The Scarlet Letter, excerpts from his three subsequently published romances—The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun—as well as passages from his European journals and a sampling of his last, unfinished works. The editor’s introduction and head notes trace the evolution of Hawthorne’s writing over the course of his long career: from the tales, to their apotheosis in The Scarlet Letter, through his popular romances, to his private journals and frustrated attempts at another romance. Readers looking for a critical vantage point from which to see Hawthorne whole—his artistic rise, triumph, and sad decline—can find it in this collection.

Author : Sarah Bird Wright
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9781438108537

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Critical Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Sarah Bird Wright Pdf

Offers critical entries on Hawthorne's novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and other works, as well as portraits of characters, including Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. This reference also provides entries on Hawthorne's family, friends - ranging from Herman Melville to President Franklin Pierce - publishers, and critics.

Author : Kenneth Dauber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OCLC:11770445

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Rediscovering Hawthorne by Kenneth Dauber Pdf

Author : Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231121911

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews Pdf

At last available in a single volume: comprehensive overviews and concise analyses of the key critical texts and approaches to the most-studied works of literature. By assembling extracts from essays, reviews, and articles, the columbia critical guides provide students with ready access to the most important secondary writings on one or more texts by a given writer. each volume: -- Offers a balanced and nuanced approach to criticism, drawing on a wide array of British and American sources -- Explains criticism in terms of key approaches, allowing students to grasp the central issues for each work -- Is edited by a noted scholar who specializes in the writer or work in question -- Includes notes and a comprehensive bibliography and index. With the publication of the scarlet letter in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne achieved not only critical recognition in his native New England but also an undisputed place amongst the newly emerging ranks of great American writers. This guide introduces and sets in context the enormous range of critical arguments that have been generated by this enduring work. From the comments and reviews of Hawthorne's contemporaries through discussions of the novel by fellow artists such as Henry James and D. H. Lawrence to radical re-readings of the postwar decades, the reader is given an invaluable guide to the critical progress of this key American text.

Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817300517

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The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art by Claudia Durst Johnson Pdf

In both his short fiction and major works, Nathaniel Hawthorne, like many romantics, is torn between the eighteenth-century view of an orderly, balanced, static art and universe, on the one hand, and the nineteenth-century conception of a changeful, various art on the other. Hawthorne based his social and psychological values on an organic view of the world, but the world of his art tended to be mechanistic. Johnson argues that Hawthorne found in theology the myths which became vehicles for his exploration of his art.

Author : Edwin Harrison Cady,Louis J. Budd
Publisher : Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015017937072

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On Hawthorne by Edwin Harrison Cady,Louis J. Budd Pdf

From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. The jouranl has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of the discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.

Author : Richard H. Millington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521002044

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The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Richard H. Millington Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne s fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies today. In newly commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthorne s writing. Each of the major novels is treated in a separate chapter, while other essays explore Hawthorne s art in relation to a stimulating array of issues and approaches. The essays reveal how Hawthorne s work explores understandings of gender relations and sexuality, of childhood and selfhood, of politics and ethics, of history and modernity. An Introduction and a selected bibliography will help students and teachers understand how Hawthorne has been a crucial figure for each generation of readers of American literature.

Author : Larry John Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0195124146

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A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Larry John Reynolds Pdf

This historical guide collects a number of original essays by Hawthorne scholars that place the author in historical context. It includes a brief biography and illustrated chronology of the author's life and times.

Author : Samuel Coale
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571133632

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The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Samuel Coale Pdf

The process of Hawthorne's scholarly canonization, and the ongoing critical and cultural discourse on his works. Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the "power of blackness" in his fiction - the complex moral grappling with sin and guilt. By the 1850s, Hawthorne had already been accepted into the American canon, and since then, his works - especially The Scarlet Letter -- have remained ubiquitous in American culture. Along with this has come an explosion of Hawthorne criticism, from New Criticism, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies to queer theory, feminist scholarship, and transatlantic criticism, that shows no signs of slowing. This book charts Hawthorne's canonization and the ongoing critical discourse, drawing on two senses of "entanglement." First the sense from quantum physics, which allows us to see what were once seen as strict dualisms in Hawthorne as more complex relations where the poles of the would-be dualities play off of and affect each other; second, the sense of critics being tangled up in, caught up in, Hawthorne the man and his work and in previous critics' views of him. Charting the course of Hawthorne criticism as well as his place in popular culture, this book sheds light also on the culture in which his reception has occurred. Samuel Chase Coale is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

Author : David Leverenz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501744143

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Manhood and the American Renaissance by David Leverenz Pdf

In the view of David Leverenz, such nineteenth-century American male writers as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were influenced more profoundly by the popular model of the entrepreneurial "man of force" than they were by their literary precursors and contemporaries. Drawing on the insights of feminist theory, gender studies, psychoanalytical criticism, and social history, Manhood and the American Renaissance demonstrates that gender pressures and class conflicts played as critical a role in literary creation for the male writers of nineteenth-century America as they did for the women writers. Leverenz interprets male American authors in terms of three major ideologies of manhood linked to the social classes in the Northeast-patrician, artisan, and entrepreneurial. He asserts that the older ideologies of patrician gentility and of artisan independence were being challenged from 1820 to 1860 by the new middle-class ideology of competitive individualism. The male writers of the American Renaissance, patrician almost without exception in their backgrounds and self-expectations, were fascinated yet horrified by the aggressive materialism and the rivalry for dominance they witnessed in the undeferential "new men." In close readings of the works both of well-known male literary figures and of then popular authors such as Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Francis Parkman, Leverenz discovers a repressed center of manhood beset by fears of humiliation and masochistic fantasies. He discerns different patterns in the works of Whitman, with his artisan's background, and Frederick Douglass, who rose from artisan freedom to entrepreneurial power. Emphasizing the interplay of class and gender, Leverenz also considers how women viewed manhood. He concludes that male writers portrayed manhood as a rivalry for dominance, but contemporary female writers saw it as patriarchy. Two chapters contrast the work of the genteel writers Sarah Hale and Caroline Kirkland with the evangelical works of Susan Warner and Harriet Beecher Stowe. A bold and imaginative work, Manhood and the American Renaissance will enlighten and inspire controversy among all students of American literature, nineteenth-century American history, and the relation of gender and literature.

Author : Laurie A. Sterling
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438112459

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Bloom's How to Write about Nathaniel Hawthorne by Laurie A. Sterling Pdf

Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction has left a lasting impression on writers, scholars, and readers around the world.

Author : Millicent Bell
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521428688

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New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales by Millicent Bell Pdf

This book examines in detail some of Hawthorne's most important and most beloved stories.

Author : Alison Easton
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826210406

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The Making of the Hawthorne Subject by Alison Easton Pdf

Nearly all critics of Hawthorne have ignored this element of development, thus missing the complex evolution of the subject and the revealing intertextual play of meaning that is evident in everything Hawthorne wrote during this period.

Author : John E. Alvis
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781412852623

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Nathaniel Hawthorne As Political Philosopher by John E. Alvis Pdf

Using the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a case study, John E. Alvis shows that a novelist can be a political philosopher. He demonstrates that much of Hawthorne's works are rooted in the American political tradition. Once we view his writings in connection with the principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence, we grasp that what Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had stated explicitly, Hawthorne's fiction conveys dramatically. With examples drawn from Hawthorne's shorter works, as well as acknowledged classics, such as The Scarlet Letter, John E. Alvis shows that Hawthorne's characters bear something sacred in their generic humanity, yet are subject to moral judgment. He conveys reciprocity between obligations regulating individual relations and the responsibilities of individuals to their community. From America's founding proclamations in the Declaration of Independence we take a sense of national aspirations for a political order that conforms to "laws of nature and nature's God." From this higher law emerge the principles enumerated in that revolutionary document. Are these principles confined to the political, or do they reach into the experience of citizens to inform conduct? Do they include family, local community, and individual face-to-face relations with neighbors and strangers? Can one make a distinct way of life by fidelity to such standards as higher law, equality, liberty, natural rights, and consent? This study is distinguished from other writings on Hawthorne in its largely positive focus on America. Alvis characterizes Hawthorne as a rational patriot who endorses America's new terms for human association. This fascinating study provides new insights into the mind of one of the greatest American writers.